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Human Strain Lyrics by Slayer

World Painted Blood

2009

[Verse 1]
Illness, infected born, mutilated strain
Issue transfusion, no one left to blame
Nature's way of thinning out
The human fucking herd
Disease, to war
To fear his own kind

[Chorus]
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child

[Verse 2]
Cities, increase spread, population rise
Dying, the future, process in the genes
Death stalking man
As he embraces the absurd
Through peace, through life
Through hatred of himself

[Chorus]
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child

[Bridge 1]
Death stalking man though peace
Through life, though hatred of himself
Death stalking man
As he embraces his crucifixion

[Bridge 2]
Skinless resurrection
From the bodies of the dead
Sickness is increasing
As the oceans turn red

Apparatus for self-destruction
Day of judgment is now at hand

[Verse 3]
Decayed memories haunt vaccinated minds
Risk contamination, mechanism of death
Anyone left alive scorched, turn to ash
Disease, war, black death touching man

[Chorus]
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child
The human strain
Returning plague
Drink the tainted blood
From the only child
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"Human Strain" appears on "World Painted Blood " in 2009.

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